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Beyond food pantries, higher education needs more substantial changes in the structure of food service to accommodate new student populations—many more low-income students, part-time “post-traditional” students attending in new patterns, and traditional students facing increasing financial challenges with rising costs of attendance.
Sheila Gestring, chief financial officer and vice president of the University of South Dakota, took the helm as its 18th president in late June. Gestring faces numerous challenges, such as […]
Up to 500 faculty at 25 higher ed institutions will become better equipped to help students prepare for career and workplace success. They’ll take a course covering career readiness and […]
Losses that may result from a data breach are clearly on the minds of campus officials. When the University Risk Management & Insurance Association surveyed higher ed institutions in 2015, […]
The January 2018 issue of UB featured its annual list of challenges for higher education, and No. 4 was both clear and encompassing: data analytics is everyone’s job. In the […]
Creating a welcoming environment, especially in the form of admissions offices, is increasingly crucial to a university’s bottom line as schools are more dependent on tuition and fees as a […]
Admissions at the University of Mississippi recently began incorporating language about landscaping services’ many accomplishments in mailers to prospective students. For example, they now mention various awards that the department […]
Learning to pay bills amidst a first-time job search can be a foggy and drawn out process for undergraduates. Unfortunately, credit reporting processes don’t allow much time for students to […]
The growth of a 194-acre tropical rainforest sometimes forces the 48-member University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s grounds crew to cut down branches and vines overrunning the institution’s Harold L. Lyon […]
Where do campuses fall short on groundskeeping and landscaping, and what misconceptions do administrators outside of facilities departments have about groundskeeping? “An important piece in efficient management of groundskeeping and […]
You might not rank plastic straws up among power plants, gas-guzzling SUVs and Styrofoam containers on the list of big-time environmental boogeymen. Yet the entire country of England, the city […]
To celebrate its bicentennial in 2018, Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, built a 76,000-square-foot arena that meets the needs of its Division I hockey program while also serving the entire […]
A two-year institution in Ohio has flipped the concept of a college scholarship. Marion Technical College President Ryan McCall says it makes as much sense to help students graduate after […]
The journey to a degree these days has many types of passengers, from full-time enrollees, to transfer students, to those who stop out for a variety of reasons only to […]
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